France license plate: WW 2009
Retired 2009 to 2025. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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WW-999-LL, for exampleWW-702-QB(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Doubling the trade W makes the provisional series: a WW number is a four-month bridge while a definitive registration is arranged, and, quietly, France's export plate, because exported vehicles were folded into WW rather than given letters of their own.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2009 to 2025. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
- Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- WW PROVISIONAL, 2009-2025, AND FRANCE'S EXPORT PLATE. There is no separate French export series: art. 8 I puts export squarely inside WW, listing new vehicles exported to the DOM/COM, to the EU or to third states, used vehicles bought from a French dealer for direct export, and diplomatic vehicles being exported "après restitution de leurs plaques diplomatiques aux autorités douanières". The four-month validity and the mandatory follow-on definitive registration are both in art. 8 II.
- How long it is valid
- months: 4. months extended: 6. note: Art. 8 II: "Un certificat provisoire d'immatriculation WW est délivré au demandeur lui permettant de circuler, pendant quatre mois. Cette durée est de six mois pour les véhicules neufs vendus incomplets aux fins de carrossage, les machines agricoles automotrices et les véhicules de catégories R et S mentionnés au I.", and "L'immatriculation provisoire est suivie obligatoirement d'une immatriculation définitive".
Legal basis and sources
- annexe VII C: WW + 3 chiffres + 2 lettres https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
- art. 8 I: the closed list of WW-eligible vehicles, including 'les véhicules neufs exportés vers les départements d'outre-mer et les collectivités d'outre-mer, vers l'Union européenne ou vers les Etats tiers' and used... https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000053057758
- art. 7 al. 2: the WW expiry date is reproduced on the plate https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020237128
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is fr-ww-2009. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of France's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fr-ww-2009")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-ww-2009.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-ww-2009/template.svg
